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ok a little update (no pictures yet)
due to one thing and another along with my back problem there’s been very little progress this week, apart from me mostly looking and thinking about how to get round problems…
figured out where to mount the fuse panel, cdi and starter solenoid tidily and out of the way, all nicely mounted onto the battery box and only one bracket needed to be made by me, no welding required
made a start on the front seat base, 1mm sheet steel roughed out to shape then folded over the edge of my workbench with the aid of a couple of clamps, a 3×2 timber and a couple of hammers (several different folds to get the basic shape) then work out how to fold the sides down …
a little more bashing and trimming required but it’s getting close..
photo’s and further bashing will resume monday
ok finally managed to do a little more …
so out with the trusty weetabix packet
use that template twice and i now have my coils mounted tidily
apart from making 4 more spacers that’s all i’ve done this week, really slow going due to my back playing up and me having to be really careful
oh well progress is progress
a little update …
a picture of my fuel line adaptor to feed the remote tap (needs brazing now)
and a picture of my cooler top mount (carved with angle grinder)
i’m now working on the template for my coils mounts (should be carved in a couple of days)…
crappy problem appeared today to slow things down, i’ve popped something in my lower back whilst lifting a 5 gallon drum so i’m back to seizing up if i don’t move regularly
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Originally posted by RadarI have added it to the reccommended posts too
aargh you really shouldn’t recommend anything i do, if only for the sake of your sanity [
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Originally posted by E1crankeram going for a 1998 600 srad version but unfortunately unable to afford it at the moment due to the ns being stolen a few weeks ago got it back after 2 weeks but needed a bit of work to get it back running, and now with it being hpi registered my sale price will have to drop a bit if and when i do come to sell it now,
due to your bike being 15 years old and not being in pristine condition (sorry) i really wouldn’t worry about the hpi report where value is concerned …
it’s a 125 that’s been derestricted which has already lowered it’s value (no cbt only holder can legally ride it), 125’s are generally desired by 17 year olds more than full licence holders..
so if you’ve followed and understood what i’ve said, when it comes to selling time work out what you’d pay for a bike in similar condition (being honest with yourself), then add 100quid to that number which should give you a negotiating value for the advertisement …
i hope that helps you with your problems
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Originally posted by imperialdataNice. Are you going to raise the tank or modify it?
well it was suggested by a couple of other lads that i modify it to wrap around the back of the cam cover and i succumbed to the idea, so yesterday i got my angle grinder out and carefully started carving …
believe it or not all i’ve had to do is grind the lip back carefully and it now gives me roughly 4mm of clearance and sits nicely on the mounts [
] ok it leaks now, but all i gotta do is take it to my tig welder and get him to seal it back up []todays effort (no pics) …
done next to fook all today, just scrounged a piece of 3mm steel and carved the top bracket for the oil cooler, gotta get a couple of M8 countersunk bolts to weld in it and that’ll be the top sorted, still gotta carve the bottom mounts (anyone got one of the bottom rubber mounts laying about, i think all oil burners use them including teapots, dig it out for me and give a shout please)…
had another look at the exhaust downpipes to see how they’ll hang (bolted this time) looks like i’ll have to make my own spacers/seals, 10mm thick at least to give me a tiny bit of clearance on the frame down tubes, might have to make extensions that go in the exhaust ports tho so that the exhaust comes out even further, we’ll see as soon as i find the ally tube for dicking about with (yes, i have an ancient lathe that i can make spacers on in my own time )
latest picture …
swingarm in loosely (gotta make some long adjuster bolts) and have been working out the mounts for the cooler, kawasaki hid two bolt holes in just the right place to hang a bracket from for the top mounts just gotta get some 3mm plate and one bottom rubber, then a little drilling, welding and cutting and that’ll be sorted (not necessarily in that order)
what am i gonna call it ? …
probably have KawaZuki hidden under the paint (if i can get it correct), but it’ll still be my Stealth Monster [
]anyway here’s another little update
my neighbouring workshop has kindly donated me the use of his milling machine and lathe a couple of weeks ago so this is the latest item i’ve made …
one offset spacer for the rear sprocket out of 16mm plate ally (since been drilled)
swingarm lugs all welded on by my tame tig welder (you need his number/location just pm me)and drag slots created with a jigsaw and file (will post a picture of it in the frame tomorrow)…
ain’t this looking good [
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